Safety cabinet for currency



April 15, 194-1. E s HALL 2,238,112

SAFETY CABINET FOR CURRENCY Filed April 3, 1940 INVENTOR.

Patented Apr. 15, 1941 ili'liii 1 Claim.

The invention is a specially constructed and arranged cabinet divided into compartments each of which has a separate entrance and the cabinet having a shatterproof glass top, wherein currency may be kept.

The object of the invention is to provide a cabinet of substantial construction wherein considerable currency or money maybe kept subject to withdrawal in small amounts with respect to number of bills or bank-notes that can be removed by a single movement of the hand and forearm of a bank teller or cashier thus reducing the probability of loss thru the constant holdup hazard experienced by banks due to the presence of large sums of money in bank tellers cages which ordinarily is subject to removal on demand of bank robbers appearing at cage windows.

A further important object of the invention is to provide a money cabinet which, when installed in banks and its use becomes generally known to the public, will cause bank robbers to refrain from attempting a holdup due to their knowledge of the difficulty and delay to be experienced in securing more than a nominal sum due to the physical inability of the bank teller to comply with a demand without consuming more time than robbers can afford to take for fear of immediate apprehension.

Other features and. advantages of the invention will appear from the following description,

taken in connection with the drawing, wherein:

Figure I is a front view of the cabinet.

Figure II is a vertical section taken upon line 2-4 of Figure I.

Figure 111 is a top View of the cabinet.

My cabinet comprises a rectangular box-like structure having vertical front 4, back 5, ends 6, with flat shatterproof glass top H and bottom wall 8. The cabinet is divided by means of hori-- zontal partitions 9 and vertical partitions 10 into main compartments H, and there is a relatively small opening [2 in the front of wall 4 of the cabinet registering with each main compartment H. The cabinet is supported by legs l3 which also form part of the ends 6.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: Y

A safety cabinet with flat bottom and top and vertical front, back and sides, with supporting legs, the interior of which is divided horizontally and vertically into compartments with a circular opening in the front wall of the cabinet registering with each compartment, which openings are small in relation to the capacity of the corresponding compartment in order that the entire contents cannot be removed quickly; the top wall of such cabinet being clear shatterproof glass.

EDWARD S. HALL. 

